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From the New York Post:

http://nypost.com/entertainment/32811.htm


APES INSTRUMENTAL TO ROCKER GABRIEL'S NEW BAND

By BRAD HUNTER
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June 18, 2001 -- Rock 'n' roll innovator Peter Gabriel is going ape over his
new band.
The founder of Genesis hasn't put out a new album in five years, but he has
been jamming at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

The rock legend plays keyboards, and so does his new backing band: a dozen
bonobo apes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Gabriel told London's Financial Times that while his new group doesn't
exactly jam together, they are feeling each other out musically.

And he insists his new mates have a keen sense of rhythm and melody.

"It is a little like working with a child," Gabriel said, adding that the
apes understand about 4,000 English words and recognize 400 pictograms.

But, Gabriel's gifted apes may soon be split up and dispatched to different
zoos and facilities for research purposes.

While the band may not play on, their eccentric leader believes they should
stay in touch. And Gabriel is hoping to use computer networks - or "Apenet,"
as he's dubbed it - to help his primate bandmates keep in contact.

The idea of Apenet is to create an Internet-based network for the bonobo
apes to "talk" with each other. Gabriel believes they could touch on the
screen, activate Webcams and virtually communicate.